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2026-08-19 12:12:52 UTC

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True.
However, that's not the whole story.
Top Middle Class 10% do 50% of damage
Poorest 50% do 10% of damage

2026-08-19 12:08:02 UTC

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Yeah, but the harm gets exported. And sodium-ion are not harm free.
Who would ever have thought that environmentalists would be championing batteries as "green" and "clean"?

2026-08-05 11:28:31 UTC

Lithium mining is the new Gold Rush. They call it "white gold"
20 ton of poisoned earth for one gold ring
“It has been mandated by the United States government and the state of California to annihilate the California Indians since the Gold Rush. And I’m still watching it today.”
90-year-old Carmen Lucas, Kwaaymii tribe, California, protesting lithium mining
https://time.com/article/2026/08/04/critical-mining-america-photo-essay/
A standard EV uses 20 KG lithium; 40,000 liters of water

2026-08-04 15:19:16 UTC

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That's for sure. Nature will sooner or later come to collect the bill, probably from our children.
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2026-08-04 12:53:52 UTC

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Some people are commenting--with the best will in the world--that once data centers are using 'renewable' energy, then basically everything is heading in the right direction.
I'm told that there are plans around Foyle, Derry to build even more huge wind factories on the mountains to supply these new data centers. This will be sold as a "green" win. The local communities are very much opposed. What we are seeing is the industrialization of the countryside sold as "green".

2026-08-04 10:08:44 UTC

There are range of data centers proposed for Foyle, Derry, Ireland. The community has been able to get access to a large quantity of disclosure documentation but they don't have the technical expertise to understand them. Much of it relates to how water will be used.
Is there anyone out there who might be able to help them?

2026-07-29 11:51:42 UTC

Big Tech has a 'solution' for its water use!
"While liquid cooling systems may reduce—but not eliminate—data center water use, they often rely on dangerous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are highly toxic, lab-made chemicals that persist in the environment and harm many systems of the human body. Data centers are poised to increase the use of these “forever chemicals” just as some other industries are phasing them out."
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/FSW_2607_DataCenterPFAS.pdf

2026-07-28 16:22:25 UTC

Woman: I woke up suddenly. It sounded like there was a ship moving beside our house. It was the wind turbines.
Liberal: Ah, here we go again. Another NIMBY
Woman: I felt physically sick.
Liberal: Nothing got to do with the wind turbines, those wonderful flying machines
Woman: The noise waves assault your body.
Liberal: You are not being impacted by the green and clean wind turbines. You're just a conspiracy theorist
Woman: We had to sell our house.
Liberal: You're just looking for compensation

2026-07-21 15:43:13 UTC

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As Tolkien once said: "False hopes are worse than fears." "Green" energy is energy industry propaganda. Putting a solar panel on your balcony is no more 'local' than putting diesel in your car at your local garage. Solar and wind depend on complex industrial systems tightly controlled by China.
Fake renewables is about saving capitalism and the lifestyles of the middle class. It's about us pretending that when can change to batteries, rather than reducing consumption.

2026-07-21 09:07:23 UTC

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So called "green" energy is controlled by China. They control 70% to 80% of wind and solar. They have already made it known that they may have to limit supply to "unfriendly" nations. The idea that fake renewables gives you energy independence is Chinese propaganda.

2026-07-21 09:04:35 UTC

Salvador Allende was killed for copper. He nationalized Chile's copper mines owned by USA oligarchs. He was made pay the price that the Global South has always had to pay to the Global North thugs, terrorists, killers
Nothing has changed. In fact, it's gotten worse
Silicon Valley-backed explorer fast-tracks one of Africa’s largest copper developments
Bill Gates is coming for the copper.
https://miningindaba.com/articles/kobold-metals-breaks-ground-on-23-billion-min

2026-07-21 07:20:04 UTC

New report "dismantles the dominant narrative that massive amounts of minerals are needed for the energy transition, revealing instead a potent convergence of political, military, and corporate interests racing to control the resources that underpin modern warfare and artificial intelligence."
https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/report/rush

2026-07-20 16:05:18 UTC

The Valley of Pimps and Pushers (aka Silicon Valley) keep the drugs out of their own neighborhood
"As far back as 2010, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs told a New York Times reporter his kids had never used an iPad and that “we limit how much technology our kids use at home.”
https://fortune.com/article/peter-thiel-tech-billionaires-limit-kids-screen-time-social-media-smartphones-short-form-video-risks/

2026-07-14 10:28:21 UTC

In the USA, they hate AI so much that politicians are starting to lose their jobs over it
"The corporate pressures to grow, to continue increasing profits for shareholders and to squeeze more revenue from workers and assets keep these tech companies seeking more land on which to build more data centers."
https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/voters-ai-backlash-politicians-lose-seats/
But if a data center wants to buy land, it needs to buy the politicians first.

2026-07-09 19:02:33 UTC

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No. But I'm sure you wouldn't like it if it was coming in your window every morning.
Rare earth mining is an unsustainable cost. It's been estimated that to do the clean in China would cost as much as the entire sector generated in revenue.
Solution? Move mining to Myanmar, places like that.
1 GW wind = 300 ton rare earth = 600,000 ton toxic waste.
And it's often radioactive waste, as rare earths are usually found beside thorium, uranium
Very green and clean.

2026-07-09 18:15:25 UTC

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A cost that is sustainable. Any accounting of such a cost must include the total environmental impact, not simply one metric, such as CO2. We don't calculate such costs right now.
Electricity is being mis-sold as renewable, which it is not. As clean and green, which it is not.
High energy societies are not sustainable, whether they are fossil fuel based, or electricity based. (Much electricity infrastructure depends on fossil fuels.)

2026-07-09 08:53:03 UTC

Talked to a member of a small village in Galicia, Spain. The village is about 1 KM from wind turbines.
They, like many others, are impacted by low-frequency noise that disturbs their sleep and well-being.
"We are also affected by shadow flicker at sunrise, when the rotating blades create repeated flashes of light that enter homes," he states.
"These effects are especially significant because they occur in a rural village where nighttime quiet and the natural environment are highly valued."

2026-07-06 18:11:53 UTC

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"The Ju/'hoansi people, a hunter-gatherer tribe in the Kalahari desert in South Africa, have a tradition called "Insulting the Meat." To prevent the best hunters from becoming overly prideful, they mockingly insult the quality of the meat and playfully taunt the hunter who brought down the animal. The larger the kill, the more substantial the insults."
https://factrepublic.com/facts/49568/
In Ireland, we call this slagging.

2026-07-06 12:21:40 UTC

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Exactly. And there lies the true hope. Only in community can we ever rise to the challenges up ahead. Communities are by definition more energy efficient and sustainable than individuals.
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2026-07-05 15:48:53 UTC

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Australia's emerging solar e-waste crisis
"The number of solar panels coming off Australian roofs is projected to grow astronomically over the next few years. By 2030, solar panel waste is projected to increase 18-fold in a decade. But solar panels are a white elephant, with very few options for people who have already made an environmentally conscious choice to ensure theirs don't end up polluting the planet in landfill."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/australia-solar-panel-waste-federal-government-recycling-scheme/106284016

2026-07-05 15:46:29 UTC

Free electricity anyone!? Move to Australia and they'll give you free electricity because of those amazing solar machines!
Australia must be so green, clean and renewable, right?
Australian coal production rebounds as exports surge amid global demand
https://thecoalhub.com/report-presentation/australian-coal-production-rebounds-as-exports-surge-amid-global-demand
Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/19/australia-emissions-increasing-coalmines-climate-policy-analysis

2026-07-05 13:48:04 UTC

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When I was a child in the 1970s, living on a small farm, my brother worked in Dublin about 100 km away. He'd sometimes drive home at weekend. A job I had was to clean the car grill and the windscreen. There were so many insects, so many insects. Not anymore.
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2026-07-05 11:35:19 UTC

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"In terms of concrete, steel, copper, glass, and aluminum (not counting the fossil fuel mass itself), renewable energy requires an order-of-magnitude more material per unit of electrical energy delivered than does fossil fuel combustion. This translates to never-ending mining, manufacturing, pollution, and all the associated ecological costs. It’s not a build-it-once-and-done game.
Renewable energy is therefore not actually renewable."
"It’s evident, right?"
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/08/mm-11-renewable-salvation/

2026-07-05 11:18:57 UTC

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The more energy we consume, the more we accelerate the Sixth Mass Extinction.
As Tom Murphy has said, for Nature, the difference between "renewable" energy and fossil fuel energy is the difference between decapitation or bullet through the head.
We do not face an energy production problem.
We do face an energy consumption crisis.
We consume vastly too much and produce vastly too much toxic waste.
We must face up to what the real problems are.

2026-07-05 11:12:26 UTC

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Lions: 90% decline in Ghana in 40 years
Forest elephants: 60% decline in 12 years
Leatherback turtles: 95% decline in 20 years
Earthworms: 33% decline in UK in 20 years
Rural hedgehog: 75% collapse since 2000
Amazon pink river dolphins: 60% wiped out in 50 years
Greater sage-grouse: 80% decline in U.S. since 1965
More than one third of tree species face extinction

2026-07-05 10:18:37 UTC

More than half of South Dakota is experiencing drought.
They're planning for a huge data center there anyway
The question now is not whether data centers are coming. It is who pays.
The environment, of course!

2026-07-04 11:11:19 UTC

"This is why degrowth is not merely a hard sell. It is a politics without a base. It asks democratic governments to pursue deliberate contraction in systems where parties compete on prosperity, voters punish governments for economically bad times and organised interests fight to protect their gains. The ecological realism of degrowth is strong. Its political theory is weak."
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2026/07/03/climate-change-politics-degrowth/

2026-07-04 11:00:24 UTC

"The perceived secrecy surrounding the proposed datacenter prompted residents to pack public meetings that sometimes lasted more than four hours. They expressed outrage at officials in the Republican-led rural municipality 40 miles (64km) north of Detroit and submitted a petition seeking to recall four members of the Lenox board of trustees, which oversees township administration, zoning and municipal ordinances."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/03/datacenter-recall-elections

2026-07-03 11:05:03 UTC

"Both Google and Amazon released their sustainability reports this week, and the numbers aren’t pretty. Each company has pledged to zero-out its carbon emissions in the coming years, but AI has made those goals a lot harder to hit. Google’s total carbon emissions are up 25% since last year, Amazon’s are up 16%."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/a-warning-sign-about-ais-real-cost-courtesy-of-google-and-amazon/
This is a massive environment-destroying crisis caused by Big Tech. What are we going to do?

2026-07-01 15:34:03 UTC

Overall, men don't give a crap about the environment. Burn it up, baby! They enjoy destroying it. It's the male thing to do, to crush Nature, to have that Big Swinging Dick SUV.
Not all men, of course.
Some men prefer to have an all-electric Big Swinging Dick SUV
https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/06/gender-emissions-gap-rich-white-mens-jobs-diets-and-hobbies-found-to-be-bad-for-the-planet

2026-06-29 11:45:39 UTC

I've spent 30 years working with some of the largest organizations in the world on their data and content.
Here's a universal truth.
Most data is slop.
Most data is crap.
At least 90% of data in a typical org should be deleted. Data centers were slop-houses long before slop AI.
Data centers are glorified data dumps and senior management has never, ever cared because it's always been "cheaper" to "solve" the data problem by buying more storage.
We are killing the planet for crap data.

2026-06-29 06:31:53 UTC

“What about our resources? What’s happening to the water? Who’s paying for all this energy and am I going to foot that bill? What will the future impact on health be from these monstrosities? What’s going to happen to the wildlife?”
“It’s happening in every US state, multiple counties, rural areas, ranches, farms and neighbourhoods. People watch nature because they respect it, they need it. And they’re watching it being destroyed,” says Brockovich.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/were-up-against-forces-that-have-all-the-money-in-the-world-erin-brockovich-on-her-battle-against-ai-datacentres

2026-06-28 10:38:21 UTC

For thousands of years, it has been known that land use change drives climate change. Cut down the forests, things get hotter. Pave the marshes, things get hotter. So, why, today, do we nearly never hear about land use change as a key driver of climate change?
Land use change = capitalism
Overconsumption is the underlying cause of every crisis we face.
We must radically slow down.

2026-06-27 18:18:20 UTC

When you feel the need to speed up, slow down
African proverb
No shorcuts today. I'm in a hurry.
Japanese proverb
Don't just do something, sit there
Sylvia Boorstein

2026-06-27 16:58:23 UTC

Man of the church: How Jeffrey Donaldson weaponised his faith to cover up sexual abuse
DUP leader fits pattern of abusers who use religion ‘to put pressure’ on victims to stay quiet, says child protection expert
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/06/27/man-of-the-church-how-jeffrey-donaldson-weaponised-his-faith-to-cover-up-sexual-abuse
It's as old as the Church. It's why the Church and God were invented: To allow men to abuse women and children.
And the root cause of environmental collapse is not fossil fuels or CO2, but rather white male supremacy culture.

2026-06-27 11:40:10 UTC

"The Aika People Say Freeport’s Grasberg Mine Operates Without Their Consent and Dumps Its Waste in the River. Copper Mark Certified It Anyway."
https://earthworks.org/blog/indigenous-council-files-complaint-over-indonesian-mines-responsible-producer-certification/
This is the true face of the Green Transition all over the world. This is your clean and green energy. This is why solar and wind are so "cheap" and even "free".
If more mining is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.

2026-06-26 12:29:15 UTC

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all sorts of games being played. But at some stage, profit needs to be made, and where is that profit going to come from?

2026-06-26 11:28:08 UTC

A proposed Haines City data center project is at a standstill because the municipality lacks the water capacity to support it.
https://www.fox13news.com/news/haines-city-data-center-project-water-capacity-shortage
More than half of data centers face drought or flood risk, report finds
Data centers are concentrating significant new capacity in locations where operating conditions are among the most demanding
https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/smart-water-magazine/more-half-data-centers-face-drought-or-flood-risk-report-finds

2026-06-26 11:17:41 UTC

AI is the greatest scam of all time
"The amount of money being invested in AI (artificial intelligence) is wild. So much money is being poured into the industry. Investors all want to bet on leaders of this new era, and large AI companies are pouring a lot of that cash into enormous data centers packed with unbelievable amounts of computer hardware, and powered by dozens upon dozens of dirty, polluting power plants. However, has it all gone too far?"
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/24/trillion-dollar-ai-bubble-on-verge-of-popping/

2026-06-11 17:03:28 UTC

In the next ten years, we need 400 new lithium mines just for electric vehicle batteries.
Thea Riofrancos
https://www.theariofrancos.com/extraction
Lithium is renewable even though it's not. But it is. The marketers say it's for the Green Transition, so that makes it green.
Lithium is clean even though its not. But it is. The marketers say so.
Batteries are clean and green. Even though they're not. But they are. They are.
Green batteries. Wow, that's a thing.

2026-06-11 11:01:55 UTC

Why is demand for 'green' minerals growing so quickly?
"The energy transition is the biggest driver of demand. Electric vehicles and renewable energy systems, particularly lithium-ion batteries, rely on large amounts of minerals. According to the International Energy Agency, demand for minerals used in batteries is expected to increase dramatically over the coming decades."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2026/06/what-are-critical-minerals-and-why-do-they-matter-for-human-rights/
There is no Energy Transition. That's energy industry fiction.
Batteries are green, yeah.

2026-06-11 10:57:22 UTC

In the USA, of 809 planned data centers, 517 are in locations that have been in drought conditions throughout the past year
“It will be an issue for farmers near the data center and if more data centers are approved to draw down the same aquifer you get a death by a thousand cuts,” said Dalbom. “You may see the water table going down so wells will have to be deeper to access the groundwater. There will still be water there but cost more to access.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/data-centers-site-location-drought-stricken-areas-water-usage/

2026-06-10 18:40:32 UTC

In Ireland, for 22% of total electricity, data centers provide 3,300 jobs
There are about 2,800,000 employed in Ireland.
For every 1% of Irish electricity, data centers provide 150 jobs
In the rest of the economy, for every 1% of electricity, 35,897 jobs are provided.

2026-06-10 10:50:35 UTC

"Real Existing Degrowth (RED) is an emerging scholarly idea. In many ways, it’s the 2020’s climate politics version of previous efforts to locate radical alternative economies in daily life, such as actually existing socialism and everyday communism. Rather than asking whether degrowth is possible in the future, RED asks to what extent elements of it already exist today."
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/alternative-economies/real-existing-degrowth-economic-alternatives-to-capitalism/

2026-06-09 15:32:09 UTC

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That's it. That's it. And selling us this science that purports to solve one problem but causes five more, but because we're not measuring those five other problems, it all can be sold as environmentally friendly.

2026-06-09 15:28:53 UTC

"China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool," Scientific American gushes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-powers-ai-boom-with-undersea-data-centers/
Our oceans are already seeing record hot temperatures. Let's dump a few thousand mega hot data centers into them, shall we?
This is progress.
This is innovation.
We solve this problem on land by causing another problem at sea.
This is science in the Growth Death Cult.
#dataCentres #datacenters

2026-06-09 10:47:11 UTC

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it's gambling and grifting and criminal behaviour. Business as usual.

2026-06-09 10:37:57 UTC

In Bangladesh, poor oversight of unlawful cross-border trade in hazardous electronic waste continues, turning the country into a net importer of electronic waste.
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/illegal-e-waste-trade-turns-bangladesh-into-net-importer/

2026-06-09 10:25:46 UTC

Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land
“The AI industry is sprinting as fast as it can to gain market dominance, and the rest of us have to deal with a great increase in water demand in places already in drought,” said Christopher Dalbom, an expert in water resources law at Tulane University.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/datacenter-ai-drought-water
The tech bros will burn everything to the ground to be the last man standing over a pile of bones and ashes
#datacenters

2026-06-08 10:38:25 UTC

"Elaine Harvey, watershed department manager for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, asked whether satellites could be used to understand what might be happening near data centers in Washington. At first, I didn’t immediately see the connection. We had all been reading about water shortages and rising water and energy costs linked to these resource-intensive facilities. But the idea that data centers might be warming rivers had never crossed my mind."
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/how-ai-clouds-the-future-of-was-rivers/

2026-06-07 10:40:15 UTC

"Managing e-waste begins before it arrives. Under the circular economy, the responsibility must shift upstream. Products entering Malaysia—whether locally assembled or imported—should be legally required to be repairable, modular, and recyclable. That means no glued-in batteries, no proprietary screws that only the manufacturer can open, and no planned obsolescence disguised as innovation."
https://www.businesstoday.com.my/2026/06/06/rethinking-malaysias-dirty-war-on-e-waste/

2026-06-06 19:31:23 UTC

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Our world is in flames, our soils are collapsing, the very land is drying out.
To the rescue, Big Tech sends giant AI data center fire trucks. They park in poor neighbourhoods and suck up all the water they can get.
But do they put the fire out? No. Their data hoses are blow torches, burning energy, spreading lies and cheap entertainment. Convincing middle-aged mediocre men they are on the hero's journey.
We don't have to accept this
We can still resist

2026-06-05 19:45:40 UTC

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One third of the excess CO2 in the atmosphere is not from burning fossil fuels. It's from burning soils. It's from desertification.
Land use change is climate change
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/222-brett-kencairn

2026-06-05 19:24:19 UTC

"The climate issue swallowed the environmental movement."
Brett KenCairn
CO2 Tunnel Vision
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/222-brett-kencairn

2026-06-05 11:21:16 UTC

Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/06/1167658

2026-06-04 10:37:29 UTC

"Indigenous organizations in Chile are sounding an alarm over President José Antonio Kast’s proposed overhaul of the country’s Indigenous Law, warning that the changes could weaken collective land protections and accelerate the privatization of Indigenous territories."
https://icmagazine.org/proposed-reform-to-landmark-law-threatens-indigenous-land-rights-in-chile/
Driven by the greed of the Green Transition, all over the world they are setting up Green Sacrifice Zones.
In Chile, Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Te Philippines, the Congo, Zambia ..

2026-06-04 10:21:41 UTC

"Ecomodernists say we’re fine: Technology, agriculture and energy will raise living standards while demanding less of nature."
"Techno-optimism is a plague on our society, rife with unintended consequences. Its single-focus problem-solving in a complex, intertwined world causes or amplifies many of the problems we face today: climate change, water scarcity and flooding, food insecurity, extreme forest fires."
Erica Gies, author of Water Always Wins
https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

2026-05-29 11:07:31 UTC

"We investigated one of the world’s largest AI data centers, using thermal drone footage to reveal the hidden pollution powering the AI boom."
Data centers are brazenly defying environmental laws and regulators are doing little or nothing to stop it.
Data centers try to move into a community real fast before locals have a chance to act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p426fSlYH4

2026-05-28 12:37:32 UTC

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There are multiple situations all over the world where Big Tech has gone to extraordinary lengths to hide it's water use from the public.
Here's a particularly infamous one:
The Dalles city sues local paper to keep Google’s data center water use secret, Sebastian Moss, Data Center Dynamics, 2021
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/the-dalles-city-sues-local-paper-to-keep-googles-data-center-water-use-a-secret/

2026-05-28 11:30:43 UTC

AI Data Centers Don't Use as Much Water as You Think
They actually use far more! But Big Tech has done such a good job as buying off politicians over the years, that the public is not allowed to know the true and total impact of data centers in their community.
Big Tech uses punitive NDAs and all sorts of other laws and tricks to hide from the public how much public water they are using.

2026-05-28 09:27:28 UTC

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Exactly. The Green Transition is energy industry propaganda. It is about saving capitalism for another 50 years, and to hell with the environment.
Twenty years ago, if you told someone that a battery was clean and green, they would have laughed at you. It's unbelievable how everything has become twisted so that we can keep on consuming. This new 'green' tech is bringing the last nails to the coffin in which our environment is being buried.
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2026-05-26 14:04:10 UTC

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Sadly, batteries are among the most toxic products ever developed, with the potential to do environmental damage for generations.
The problem is solar and wind are sold as clean and green and renewable, none of which is true. Massive quantities of copper, cobalt, lithium, nickel, aluminum, etc. etc., are required. And then these wind and solar factories are often installed on Indigenous land. The only solution is a vast reduction in energy consumption.
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2026-05-26 10:49:19 UTC

In Ontario, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest highway, a vast stretch of peatlands and boreal forest is being readied for sacrifice.
They have to destroy the peatlands for the critical metals for the clean energy for the Great Green Transition. Aren't peatlands carbon sinks?
"Above those underground treasures, the world’s largest intact peatland ecosystem stores vast amounts of carbon and supports Indigenous communities that have lived there for generations."
https://www.theenergymix.com/ring-of-fire-push-pits-critical-minerals-against-carbon-peatlands-indigenous-rights/

2026-05-26 10:27:50 UTC

AI generated identical résumés for a man and a woman: Hers was more likely to be labeled ‘weak,’ while his got a 97% approval rating
https://fortune.com/2026/05/10/identical-resume-ai-men-women-response-trust-ability/
This is not a flaw. It's deep design. AI is designed by Nazi Musk and his white male supremacist buddies for white male supremacists.
White male supremacy in = white male supremacy out

2026-05-23 15:47:49 UTC

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The history of science, though, is the history of white male supremacy, and it is white male supremacy that is also the driver of capitalism. Science is man playing god, and we can clearly see that men are not nearly wise enough to be allowed to do that.
There is this, I think, naive view, that if we only leave it up to the scientists, then everything will be fine. That if we just crunch the numbers and follow the formula, we get to a good place. The evidence shows otherwise.

2026-05-23 13:18:19 UTC

'Insect apocalypse' is already fueling malnutrition in some regions, first-of-its-kind study reveals
Science did this.
Congratulations, science
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/humanitys-ancient-bond-with-biodiversity-is-visible-in-rock-art-analysis/
Since 1970, there has been a:
50% decline in insects
73% collapse in wildlife numbers
49% decline in marine life
69% decline in vertebrates
83% decline in freshwater species
And now we have AI
So much progress.
So much winning.

2026-05-23 12:48:44 UTC

Once we were Indigenous
Once we were part of nature
Once we were wise
Then we became civilized
"Across continents and cultures, one of the most striking features of ancient rock art is how often it places the natural world at its center. Whether etched into sandstone cliffs in the Sahara, painted in hidden shelters in Southern Africa, or drawn on stone faces deep in the Amazon, the recurring subject is not architecture, warfare or abstract political power."
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/humanitys-ancient-bond-with-biodiversity-is-visible-in-rock-art-analysis/

2026-05-23 11:00:49 UTC

Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity
"An estimated 13 percent of US cloud consumption, totaling more than 3 gigawatts, comes from so-called "zombie" workloads—abandoned test environments and unused applications that continue to draw power without doing any useful work."
https://singularityhub.com/2026/05/22/data-centers-now-consume-6-of-electricity-in-the-us-and-the-backlash-has-begun/

2026-05-21 10:31:56 UTC

"But behind the headlines, lies the truth: AI is taking all the cash from the biggest names in the market. In fact, in just five quarters (2025 through 1Q26), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), Amazon (AMZN), and Oracle (ORCL) burned a combined $563 billion in free cash flow (FCF)."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2026/05/20/ai-is-devouring-all-the-cash/

2026-05-20 15:51:24 UTC

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Yeah, let's fill the sea with wind turbines and data centres, and we can mine the deep sea to get the materials to build all these marvels. They just want growth at any cost, don't they.
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2026-05-20 12:23:09 UTC

"Last year, the Appalachian Rekindling Project made a big move. We bought 63 acres of former strip mine land in Letcher County, Kentucky. Our investment disrupted plans for a $505 million federal prison complex that would have caged 1,300 people, stopping a cycle of harm that has defined Appalachia for too long."
"We acknowledge historical harm, center Indigenous sovereignty, build true community safety through ecological restoration rather than allow another prison."
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/this-former-strip-mine-was-planned-for-a-prison-local-activism

2026-05-20 12:17:28 UTC

"The AI boom has resulted in new data center facilities that use exponentially more electricity and water than ever before. But because of regulatory loopholes, AI companies don’t have to report on their water usage, straining an already precious resource in California."
https://www.kalw.org/bay-area-news/2026-05-19/lack-of-water-usage-transparency-at-ai-data-centers-raises-concerns

2026-05-20 12:16:03 UTC

"Corpus Christi needs the groundwater beneath the small town of Sinton so urgently that it’s already laying pipeline, even before it has the permits to start drilling for water. Sinton, with 5,500 residents about half an hour north, is fighting those permits in court, citing concerns for its own water supply. But leaders in Corpus Christi, which supplies water to half a million people, now suggest an ulterior motive: Sinton wants a thirsty, new complex of data centers."
https://www.route-fifty.com/infrastructure/2026/05/local-texas-leaders-believe-data-center-plans-may-be-behind-delays-emergency-water-supply/413626/?oref=rf-homepage-river

2026-05-20 12:13:24 UTC

Electronic waste and used batteries contain dangerous heavy metals including lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, and lithium, which can leak into soil, groundwater, and ecosystems when improperly disposed of together with household garbage.
“One of the most dangerous characteristics of heavy metals is that they persist in nature and accumulate through the food chain."
https://ilkha.com/english/health-life/turkiye-generates-nearly-1-million-tons-of-e-waste-annually-experts-warn-534069

2026-05-20 12:10:57 UTC

"IDTechEx’s 2025 report on sustainable semiconductor manufacturing projects that energy consumption for chip fabrication will triple between 2025 and 2035, growing at a CAGR of 12%. Water consumption is projected to double over the same period. The input cost of building electronics keeps rising, environmentally speaking, even as device prices stay flat or drop."
https://impakter.com/electronics-circular-problem-why-what-we-build-matters-as-much-as-what-we-recycle/
This is the very industry selling renewable, green and clean energy

2026-05-20 12:08:26 UTC

"The electronics industry has a loop problem. Not a supply chain problem, not a recycling problem – a loop problem. The industry has optimized brilliantly for the first half of a product’s life: design, manufacture, sell. It has been far less serious about the second half: reuse, refurbish, recover. The result is a system that creates enormous value at one end and destroys it – along with significant environmental damage – at the other."
https://impakter.com/electronics-circular-problem-why-what-we-build-matters-as-much-as-what-we-recycle/

2026-05-20 12:00:48 UTC

"A buzzy new book called “The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality” contains more than a half-dozen misattributed or fake quotes,” a review by The New York Times discovered. In response to questions from the paper, the author, Steven Rosenbaum, admitted that the book contained a “handful of improperly attributed or synthetic quotes” stemming from his use of AI tools."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/book-ai-truth-ai-hallucinated-quotes

2026-05-20 11:56:38 UTC

"Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud control roughly two-thirds of global cloud infrastructure. These firms not only control the underlying computing infrastructure; they are also vertically integrated across the AI stack, designing chips, and building end-use applications. Congress and antitrust enforcers should require structural separation between cloud infrastructure, AI model development, and downstream applications."
https://ilsr.org/articles/the-policies-communities-need-to-meet-the-ai-moment/

2026-05-19 12:26:02 UTC

AI keeps on delivering
Before the AI "Dragontail's rollout, Chaac says more than 90% of its pizza deliveries arrived within 30 minutes, and the company consistently posted double-digit sales growth and guest-satisfaction scores above system averages. After Pizza Hut rolled out Dragontail in 2024, the franchisee says delivery performance sharply deteriorated."
https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-ai-system-dragontail-lawsuit-franchisee-2026-5

2026-05-18 14:40:53 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.green/@juliette/116594425473101770
It becomes more obvious every day: Men are the problem and have been for a long time. Toxic white male supremacy is wiping out life on earth.
Where are the 'good' men?
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2026-05-14 10:35:33 UTC

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“We’re here to Protect Mother Earth”: Indigenous Rights and Nevada’s Lithium Boom
As lithium projects accelerate across Nevada, extraction is being approved on Indigenous ancestral lands. Companies are advancing projects as the US fast-tracks “critical minerals” development, sidelining rights protections and heightening risks for people. In an arid, high-desert environment, lithium extraction threatens scarce water, cultural survival, health and fragile ecosystems.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/AMR51/0741/2026/en/

2026-05-14 10:32:51 UTC

When more mining is the answer, you're asking the wrong question
"Nevada is experiencing a lithium boom that has seen more than 20,000 claims filed. The report also comes amid global resistance by Indigenous peoples to “green transition” mining that they say comes at the expense of their land and rights."
“The way that this mining has always taken place has been incredibly damaging to the environment and people."
https://grist.org/indigenous/report-nevadas-lithium-boom-comes-at-the-expense-of-indigenous-rights/

2026-05-13 12:15:33 UTC

The AI Data Center Backlash Is Growing. Kevin O’Leary’s $1 Billion Stratos Project Reveals Why
Community opposition to massive AI data center projects is emerging as a critical bottleneck to the infrastructure buildout, with residents in Utah, Virginia, Arizona, Georgia, and Texas raising concerns about water consumption, power demands, and environmental impact that could delay multibillion-dollar projects and reshape where AI facilities get built.
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/05/12/the-ai-data-center-backlash-is-growing-kevin-olearys-1-billion-stratos-project-reveals-why/

2026-05-13 12:00:18 UTC

This AI data center will be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts and dump '23 atom bombs worth of energy' into the environment every day — and locals are terrified
The scale sounds almost unreal. The proposed campus reportedly spans around 40,000 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, an area larger than many major cities.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bigger-2-124356503.html

2026-05-12 05:37:15 UTC

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i can't recommend Klee Benally's No Spiritual Surrender more highly. Profound work.

2026-05-10 10:54:40 UTC

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How the data centers operate. Always in secrecy.
"When the county utility investigated, officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed."
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/datacenter-sprawl-pushes-georgia-into-dangerous-water/
In other places, they don't have to steal the water: they get it for free.

2026-05-10 10:50:48 UTC

A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure
Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.
“We get this notification from Fayette County water system saying you need to stop watering your lawns to help conserve water."
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

2026-05-10 10:46:11 UTC

"The term ‘waste colonialism’ was first introduced during the early meetings of the Basel Convention in 1989. The concept is straightforward: wealthier nations, facing stricter environmental laws and rising disposal costs, send their most harmful waste to poorer countries. These countries often lack the necessary infrastructure, legal frameworks, or political will to refuse such shipments. Fast forward to today, and not much has changed."
https://countercurrents.org/2026/05/recycling-lie-how-rich-nations-export-their-waste-crisis/

2026-05-10 10:37:29 UTC

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Yes, absolutely. The commons and many other highly sustainable systems were how most humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Humans have long shown that we can live sustainably and fairly. This modern scientific capitalist system is literally a cancer on our environment. It will devour everything. We live in a Growth Death Cult, ruled by the worst of the worst of narcissistic, greedy men.
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2026-05-10 10:29:54 UTC

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Nothing remotely compares to the Europeans. The Europeans have always been master of genocide and ecocide. Nothing comes even close.
Indigenous cultures are incredibly various but there is lots of evidence out there of Indigenous cultures behaving vastly--vastly--better in relation to the environment, than European imperialists whose whole religion has been to colonize and subdue.
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2026-05-10 10:10:49 UTC

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Humans are not necessarily damaging to ecosystems. Some of the most bio-diverse ecosystems in the worlds are so because of Indigenous people and how they have learned to integrate with nature. Humans can be good partners and protectors of Nature. Modern, particularly Western civilization is a devourer of Nature.
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2026-05-08 18:34:30 UTC

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We need to consume much better and much less. I saw this quote recently:
"Less stuff. More fun."
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2026-05-08 16:11:26 UTC

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There's nothing remotely "clean" about solar. Just because something is less dirty in one area does not make it clean. Modern tech is inherently toxic. We must seek to radically reduce energy use.
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2026-05-08 15:34:24 UTC

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well, that's it. China controls 80% of the global solar market and 70% of the wind power market, and a growing slice of the EV market ... all made with coal!

2026-05-08 15:29:15 UTC

Coal produces about 33% of global electricity
Solar and wind produce 8–9% each
Electricity meets about 20% of total energy demand
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/coal-still-powers-more-electricity/
"The year 2025 recorded the largest net addition to global coal capacity in over a decade, driven largely by China amid the country’s heightened energy security concerns."
https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2026/04/28/resurgence-to-retirement-global-insights-on-transitioning-away-from-coal/
China accounts for 55.8% of global coal consumption
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-worlds-biggest-coal-consumers/

2026-05-06 12:44:31 UTC

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"Supporters of economic theories known as “degrowth” or “post-growth” say that capitalism’s pursuit of growth, along with the relentless consumption and production needed to sustain it, has run its course. They point to rising inequality, exceeding natural planetary boundaries and geopolitical struggles over scarcer energy resources."
https://theconversation.com/is-this-the-moment-to-change-the-way-we-think-about-economic-growth-281747

2026-05-06 12:42:54 UTC

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Degrowth is the only hope
"Resources are dwindling, including minerals, timber, water, and soils. Almost all ecosystems are being damaged, including the atmosphere, oceans, and forests. Species are being lost at an alarming rate. Seven of the nine major “planetary boundaries” impacts have now exceeded safe levels."
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-05/transition-towns-are-key-to-degrowth-but-current-movements-remain-too-reformist/

2026-05-06 12:33:34 UTC

The world's richest, lying Nazi, Musk promised his data center would reuse water. That's now stalled.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company abruptly stopped work on a water reuse facility meant to alleviate strain on the Memphis-area water supply. Nobody’s saying why.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/xai-water-reuse-project-musk-ai-spacex-ipo-environmental-project-ee-00896170

2026-05-06 09:06:16 UTC

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ new record
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-dioxide-levels-in-the-atmosphere-just-hit-a-depressing-record-high/
Solar energy is reaching record highs.
Wind energy is reaching record highs
Coal energy is reaching record highs
Oil and gas energy are reaching record highs.
The problem is growth. We live in the final stages of a Growth Death Cult.
We are in the worst of all worlds:
More wood
More coal
More oil
More gas
More hydro
More nuclear
More wind
More solar
It's an energy CONSUMPTION crisis.

2026-05-05 14:28:04 UTC

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They have plans for 100 lithium mines in the USA alone.
And aluminum is hugely damaging to tropical forests, where the bauxite for it is found. Just was at a presentation about how bauxite mining is wiping out large parts of the Amazon. All of this stuff has huge environmental costs.